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zhongqiang Posted: 12-15-2005 8:51 AM

Paladin had became to Word of the Day at Dictionary.com for today.. Haha.. This post has nothing to do with the "Palandin" project at SGDN, but i was thinking it's nice know the english meaning of Paladin. (Can shift to other forums if its not supposed to be here.. Stick out tongue [:P])

Word of the Day for Wednesday December 14, 2005

paladin \PAL-uh-din\, noun:
1. A knight-errant; a distinguished champion of a medieval king or prince; as, the paladins of Charlemagne.
2. A champion of a cause.

Once in power, though, Clinton stumbled repeatedly over obstacles created by the schizoid campaign he had conducted, in which he had cast himself simultaneously as the champion of a more conservative Democratic credo and as a paladin of the party's traditional activism.
--Robert Shogan, The Fate of the Union

Even Columbia University economist Jagdisch Baghwati, the paladin of free trade, calls for controls on capital flow.
--"Terrors in the Sun," The Nation, June 29, 1998

Matisse, paladin of modernism, is a long way from us now.
--Robert Hughes, "The Color of Genius," Time, September 28, 1992

. . . the celebrated but distrusted paladin of imperialism and the romantic conception of life, the swashbuckling militarist, the vehement orator and journalist, the most public of public personalities in a world dedicated to the cultivation of private virtues, the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the Conservative Government then in power, Mr. Winston Churchill.
--Isaiah Berlin, "Mr. Churchill," The Atlantic, September 1949

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